Sous Chef (d/w/m)
Bern
Key information
- Publication date:19 September 2025
- Workload:100%
- Place of work:Bern
Job summary
Join the SV Group for exciting culinary adventures! Enjoy a supportive work environment with great benefits.
Tasks
- Take charge of the kitchen in the chef's absence, ensuring smooth operations.
- Prepare warm and cold dishes, including catering orders with flair.
- Manage inventory, orders, and maintain a clean kitchen environment.
Skills
- Completed culinary apprenticeship and several years of cooking experience.
- Passion for cooking and guest interaction, with strong team spirit.
- Flexibility, resilience, and good German language skills are essential.
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Are you interested in exciting culinary arts and eager for a fresh and varied kitchen? Then you are exactly right with us!
You with us. A recipe for success.
- Kitchen responsibility during the absence of the head chef
- Production of hot and cold dishes, such as production and provision of catering orders
- Front cooking and food service
- Ordering and inventory as well as other administrative tasks
- General tidying and cleaning tasks
- Completed chef apprenticeship EFZ and several years of experience as a cook
- Experience in community catering is an advantage
- Good knowledge of German
- Passion for the cooking profession and enjoyment of guest contact
- Hands-on, flexible, resilient and team-oriented
- Feasting: Free, fresh and healthy employee meals
- Discounts: Employee rates in SV-managed hotels and discounted meals in our restaurants
- Flexibility: Part-time work and job sharing possible, depending on the operation no room hours
- Workwear: We provide and clean employees' workwear
- Compensation: Market-based salary and 13th-month salary
- Family-friendly: 5 weeks vacation, purchase of additional vacation possible, 16 weeks maternity leave
- Bonus and vouchers: Employee referral program, gifts for anniversaries and birthdays
- Development: SV Academy with nearly 300 trainings, courses, further education opportunities and e-learnings
- Additional benefits: Various discounts (e.g. at Sunrise, Reka, Migrol, Fleurop, collective insurance CSS/Helsana)
Sarah, HR Recruiter
The SV Group is a leading gastronomy and hotel management group based in Dübendorf near Zurich. The group operates in several business areas: restaurants for companies and schools, hotels with own brands as well as with other renowned brands as franchisee, public restaurants with innovative concepts as well as gastronomic delivery service and catering. The SV Group employs around 5,800 employees, of which 4,000 are in Switzerland.
The SV Group goes back to the non-profit organization "Swiss Association for Soldiers' Welfare" founded in 1914. Else Züblin-Spiller established soldiers' lounges nationwide and served balanced and affordable meals there. The idealistic values of the founder are continued today by the SV Foundation. This non-profit foundation is the majority shareholder of the SV Group and uses its funds for projects in the field of healthy nutrition and for the common good.
In the Mattehof gastronomy in Bern, our host team with 17 employees spoils around 500 guests daily. The high-quality, attractive and varied offer consists of various menus, front cooking (pasta concept, wok or grill), free choice buffet, extensive salad buffet and snacks. Additionally, the gastronomy includes a cafeteria. Through the in-house catering offer, it is possible to order snacks and drinks for meetings or aperitifs. Regular company events and special occasions are held.
You work from Monday to Friday, each day between 06:00 and 17:00, depending on the duty roster. The operation is closed on public holidays and weekends. You are flexibly deployable for occasional special events.
